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I am such a dumb ass

What do you get when you take one pasty white girl and put her outside at a Tiger game on a sunny 80 degree day? You get one holy sunburn batman!




Yeah so I am a little sore right now. I know I should wear sunscreen and I say that to myself every time I go out for long periods of time but I have yet to learn my lesson. That is why I receive the dumbass award for today. Plus the Tigers LOST! I would feel a little better if they would have at least won. Oh well I did get to see this.


This is my boyfriend Pudge batting. Yesterday was the game where he became #4 on the all time games caught list. It was his 1400+ game (I can not remember the exact number).




In knitting news there has not been much knitting around here. I have been working on the April Mid Month KAL but have had a hard time with it. At least I am not alone because the email group was going crazy with messages about frogging this thing. I seem to finally have my groove going on and just completed the rows for day #1. I also joined the Monthly Bookmark KAL because I clearly do not have enough to keep me busy already. Oh well, variety is the spice of life they say. Until next time ....

When it rains it pours

In light of today's tragedies - both national and local - I feel like a heel complaining but I'm going to anyway. The last 6-7 weeks have been very hard on me. I have had health issues, "friend" issues, and work crap. I thought things were finally coming together when this happened. I am getting a frickin cold! My throat is so sore I can hardly swallow and my nose keeps running. I hope this passes quickly because I can not take anymore time off from work right now.

In knitting news I have continued work on my Irish Hiking Scarf. It is getting longer but the damn ball is not getting any smaller. I will also be casting on for the April Mid Month KAL tonight or tomorrow. Now I am off to finish watching Dancing with the Stars and eat some ice cream. Don't look at me like that it makes my throat feel better. Until next time ....

A bit of this and a bit of that

So I have a bit of a hodge podge for you today. My finger is doing much better now and I can knit without much pain. I mean as if work didn't already get in the way of my knitting time this had to happen. However, I did manage to finish another dishcloth.

This is the January Mid Month KAL. This was such a nice pattern I do not know why I waited so long to knit it. I love the cheery Yellow perfect for PS. Details are located here.





Today I wound up the ball of Paton's Classic Wool I dyed last week. I have decided that I am going to make the Sophie bag from Mag Knits. I will cast on as soon as I make some more progress on some current WIPs.




Finally, just in time for this color triad my boys in Green (and white) shock the hockey world and win the National Championship. They beat Boston College 3-1 last Saturday night. It was a pretty boring game for the most part. They were losing until there were only a few minutes left in the 3rd period when they tied it up. The winning goal was scored by Justin Abdelkador (I love that name) with 18.9 seconds left. They added an empty netter and won the third hockey championship in school history.

Well time to get back to the knitting. I have added a few repeats of my Irish Hiking Scarf today while watching movies and TV shows I DVR'd this week. I am now onto the second ball and ready to roll. Until next time ....

As if I wasn't already the slowest knitter ....

I had to go and hurt myself. I was folding some documents so I could put them in an envelope and mail them when it happened. I got a frickin paper cut on my left thumb. It may not sound like a big deal but this is the deepest paper cut I have ever seen. I bled for several minutes but I managed to keep all of the blood off of the papers I needed to mail. I never realized how much my thumb gets in the way when I am knitting (I am a thrower). I kept hitting it tonight while I was binding off another dishcloth and it hurts like a bitch. This is going to be fun. Until next time ....

Some more FOs for you

So I am off to a pretty good start for PS projects in this color triad. I have been knitting quite a bit lately. Even better than knitting a lot is the fact that I have not had to rip out much.


This is the "infamous" DW dishcloth from knitting nonsense. I saw this Sugar' n Cream colorway, Rosewood, at JoAnn's and had to have it. This pattern is the perfect showcase for the color. The specs are located here.




Friday night I did some more Kool-Aid dyeing. This is a skein of Paton's Classic Wool dyed with Lemon-Lime. I love the color variations that came through. I have no idea what I am going to make with it but I will figure it out eventually. Maybe a small felted bag would work.


I have the DVR set to record Knitty Gritty
every day and I watch it when I get home. Yesterday's guest was Scout and she talked about dyeing using acid dyes to make variegated and self striping yarns. I think I am going to try to do this with Kool-Aid first and then move onto more advanced dyes. I will admit though that the fact she recommends wearing a mask when using these dyes in powder form freaks me out a bit. Oh well I will get over it I guess. Until next time ....

Tickled Pink (and Yellow and Green)

So April is here which means that, besides warm weather coming closer (although it SNOWED today), it is time to start a new Project Spectrum color triad. The colors for April and May are pink, yellow and green. I have never really liked any of these colors so I was not expecting to find this much stash yarn in these shades.



Many of these are variegated with other colors - most of them with purple which is my favorite color. However, they all have pink, yellow and green (or all three) in there somewhere. I even have a FO in pink to show off in my next entry (you can see it all bunched up on the needles in the bottom of the picture).

Tonight,to fight off my loneliness, I dyed my second skein of Paton's Classic Wool using Lemon-Lime Kool-Aid. I loved how it turned out and will also show it off in my next post. My hubby and his daughters left for Atlanta yesterday morning. They are there with his entire family for Easter. I was not able to go because I have tickets to see RENT tomorrow with my sister and some of her friends. I usually do not mind being alone but I had today off (one good thing about my job is the extra holidays we get) so I have been alone ALL DAY. Also, with everything that has happened the last month I have gotten used to the DH breathing down my neck to make sure I am ok. Oh well, after being with my family tomorrow and all day Sunday I will be wishing I was alone again! I hope everyone has a great Easter/Passover weekend. Until next time ....

The Yarn Harlot and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Our poor Harlot! She had a horrible day on Sunday. I'm sure at some point during the day she was hoping this was some huge April Fool's joke. That is what everyone in the library's multi purpose room was hoping. However, everyone remained in good spirits and a lot of knitting was done. It was also nice to see people in real life whose blogs I read everyday.

Some of us took advantage of the delayed arrival to do some stash enhancement. We headed to Busy Hands a few blocks away and overwhelmed the small store.



I bought this beautiful Reynolds Top Seed Cotton in chocolate brown. This will become a Fake-A-Gamo some day. Maybe during the brown PS months of August and September.








The Harlot made her entrance by running into the room at top speed. All she said was crap which after the day she had I think is pretty good. Here she is getting ready to take the famous sock with the crowd shot. She was funny and wonderful and I wished she would have talked longer than she did. If you get the chance to go to one of her talks jump at the chance it is so worth it.

After her talk she was wonderful and talked to every person there. She is very funny and so sweet. She is also so small! I was a little psyched that she knew my blog when she saw my name tag. I tried not to embarrass myself and I think I did ok.

I told Tina and Miranda that I was putting their picture on my blog if they dragged their chairs across the room, up the stage and in front of the Harlot so I am keeping my promise.





All in all is was a great (but LONG) day. Until next time ....